Jermaine Toney, Ph.D.

Jermaine Toney, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Contact

Office: 550, Civic Square Building
Email: jermaine.toney [at] rutgers.edu
Phone: (848) 932-2386

Education

Ph.D., M.Phil. Economics, The New School for Social Research; M.S., Urban Policy Analysis and Management, Milano - The New School for International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy; B.A., Environmental Studies and Peace/Justice Studies, University of St. Thomas 

Jermaine Toney, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

ON LEAVE, SPRING 2025

Jermaine Toney, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Bloustein School. He was selected to receive a 2023-2024 National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Fellowship on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Economic Outcomes. Professor Toney was a member of the 2022-2023 cohort of Early Career Faculty Fellows in the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University. His work has been supported by an Early Career Award (Pipeline Grants Competition) from the Russell Sage Foundation and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to joining the Bloustein School faculty, he was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. Currently, Professor Toney is a research fellow with the Institute for Behavioral and Household Finance at Cornell University.

Dr. Toney’s research focuses on finance, family, and health. An overarching focus of his research is the distribution and stratification of various socio-economic indicators, such as wealth, income, and education. His current work examines the transmission of socioeconomic status across generations, intergroup experiences in accessing credit and asset markets, analytic approaches to measuring the racial wealth gap, how disparities in health affect a household’s financial marketplace participation. Professor Toney previously taught in the Department of Economics at Queens College, City University of New York.

Research Interests
  • Applied microeconomics
  • Socioeconomic and racial inequality
  • Wealth and health disparities
  • Demography and family connections
Undergraduate Courses
  • Public Health Economics

Publications